Tuesday, October 10. 2017

In 1845 the US Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, MD. In 1911 revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty. In 1935 George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway. In 1938 in accord with the Munich Agreement, Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. In 1943 Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China. In 1964 the 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo. In 1970 Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte was kidnapped by the Quebec Liberation Front, a militant separatist group. (Laporte's body was found about a week later.) In 1973 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, accused of accepting bribes, pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion, and resigned his office. In 1981 funeral services were held in Cairo for Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat, who had been assassinated by Muslim extremists. In 1985 US fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody.